- Look up
jackeen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Jackeen is a
pejorative term for
someone from Dublin, Ireland. The
Oxford English Dictionary defines...
- cherubic-looking five-year-old and his far-from-cherubic
fairy godfather,
Jackeen J. O'Malley, a short, cigar-smoking man with four tiny wings. With a distinctive...
- Seán (2004). "
Jackeen". Brewer's
dictionary of
Irish phrase & fable.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Fallon,
Donal (17
December 2017). "
Jackeen: 'A
fellow who...
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manners and attitudes".
Similar to shoneen,
another variant since c. 1840,
jackeen ('Little Jack'), was used in the
countryside in
reference to Dubliners...
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Culchie Cultural cringe Dic Siôn
Dafydd Gender-critical
feminism Hanjian Jackeen Mankurt No true
Scotsman Patrol 36 Race
traitor Shoneen Self-hating Catholic...
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Negro Colonial mentality Cultural cringe Culchie Dic Siôn
Dafydd Hanjian Jackeen Jump Jim Crow List of
ethnic slurs Race
traitor Respectability politics...
- But when he spoke, well then, I knew him at once for just
another Dublin jackeen chatting up a
country girl." The
numerous erotic letters they exchanged...
- (1985)
Barnaby #2: Mr. O'Malley and the
Haunted House (1985)
Barnaby #3:
Jackeen J. O'Malley for
Congress (1986)
Barnaby #4: Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold...
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Usually in the
phrase 'Gombeen man'
Guards Noun
Garda Síochána
Police Jackeen /dʒæˈkiːn/ Noun
Nickname for John (i.e. Jack)
combined with
Irish diminutive...
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common term in Dublin, as a
counter to the
country people's use of the word
jackeen for a
Dublin person. The
culchie spelling is
common in the English-language...
